The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In the 1970s, NASA embarked on a mission it had never attempted before.

Due to a fortunate alignment of planets, they were going

to attempt to send robotic probes on a fly-by mission to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

before being sent into deep space out of the solar system forever.

Some of the mission planners figured they're going to send a probe all that way, maybe they might

as well add a little something extra to the payload.

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Interstellar Age, the story of the NASA men and women who flew the 40-year Voyager

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The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries, 11.3 billion miles away from the

crew who built and still operate them decades after their launch. The mission was planned as a

grand tour beyond the moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and into interstellar space. The fact

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The Voyager Program's origin began in the 1960s.

The very first interplanatory probes which NASA sent out were under a program called

Mariner. The Mariner program managed to launch 10 probes between 1962 and 1973, which

visited and photographed Mars, Venus and Mercury.

As the Mariner Program advanced, NASA began to look at visiting the outer planets in the

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